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Wake Forest's Bobby Seymour Named ACC Player Of The Year

Seymour leads the ACC in batting with a .377 average and leads the nation in RBI with 92.
Credit: AP
Wake Forest first baseman Bobby Seymour tosses the ball back to his pitcher while facing Liberty during an NCAA baseball game on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 in Winston-Salem, N.C. (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek)

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Wake Forest sophomore first baseman Bobby Seymour has been voted the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Player of the Year by the league’s head coaches, while Louisville sophomore left-hander Reid Detmers earned the nod as ACC Pitcher of the Year.                       

NC State junior shortstop Will Wilson was selected the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, while North Carolina designated hitter/utility man Aaron Sabato was tabbed as the Freshman of the Year. Georgia Tech’s Danny Hall was recognized by his peers as the ACC Coach of the Year.

All four players receiving 2019 season awards earned first-team honors on the 2019 All-ACC Baseball Teams, which were also announced on Monday.

Seymour, a native of St. John, Indiana, leads the ACC in batting with a .377 average and leads the nation in RBI with 92. Seymour’s 92 RBI are the most by an NCAA Division I player since Florida State’s Buster Posey finished with 93 in 2008 and are just two shy of the Wake Forest season record.

Seymour, who has nine home runs and 28 total extra-base hits on the season, also leads the ACC in total hits (86). The Dick Howser Award semifinalist will enter this week’s ACC Baseball Championship slugging .579 with an on-base percentage of .437.

Louisville’s Detmers, who was named the NCBWA’s Pitcher of the Month at the end of March and racked up numerous other national awards during the regular season, owns an 11-2 record and leads ACC starters in ERA at 2.42. The Chatham, Illinois, sophomore has limited opposing batters to a .170 batting average while striking out an ACC-high 138 batters in 89.1 innings.

A semifinalist for the Dick Howser Award, the Golden Spikes Award and the College Baseball Foundation’s Pitcher of the Year, Detmers has posted eight starts with double-digit strikeouts. 

Wilson has provided a solid defensive presence for an NC State unit that leads the conference with a .981 team fielding percentage. Wilson, a native of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, is fielding at a .976 clip with 117 assists and just five errors in 176 chances. He has made 54 putouts and has been part of 25 of the 44 double plays the Wolfpack has turned this season.

North Carolina’s Sabato is batting .358 to rank seventh among ACC hitters. The Rye Brook, New York, native ranks sixth in the conference with a .656 slugging percentage and is eighth in total bases with 2.3 per game. Sabato has homered 13 times while driving in 54 runs.

Georgia Tech’s Hall was recognized as the ACC Coach of the Year for the first time since 2005, but for the fourth time overall. His four selections as Coach of the Year are tied for third-most in conference history.

Hall led his Yellow Jacket squad – which had been picked for a fifth-place finish in the Coastal Division in preseason – to the division title and the No. 2 seed in this week’s ACC Baseball Championship. Hall’s troops own a 38-16 overall record and finished with a 19-11 mark in ACC play. The Yellow Jackets won their final nine ACC series to secure the program’s first division title since 2011.

Hall now owns 1,265 career wins, including 1,057 in his 26 years at Georgia Tech. He is one of four active ACC coaches who has won at least 1,000 career games.

Georgia Tech’s three selections to the 2019 All-ACC first team leads all schools, and the Yellow Jackets’ six total All-ACC selections tie with Clemson, Florida State and Louisville for the most this season.

Seymour, Detmers, Wilson and Sabato are joined on the 16-member All-ACC first team by catchers Kyle McCann and Patrick Bailey of NC State, Georgia Tech first baseman Tristin English, Virginia second baseman Nic Kent, Florida State third baseman Drew Mendoza, outfielders Grayson Byrd of Clemson, Kennie Taylor of Duke, Michael Busch of North Carolina and Chris Lanzilli of Wake Forest; starting pitchers Connor Thomas of Georgia Tech and Dan Metzdorf of Boston College, and Florida State relief pitcher J.C. Flowers.

Flowers also made this year’s All-ACC squad as a third-team outfielder. Wilson, English and Thomas are repeat first-team selections from last season.

Sabato and Kent are two of eight freshman that earned spots on the All-ACC first, second or third teams. Each of those players were also voted to the 12-member All-ACC Freshman Team.

 

2019 All-ACC Baseball Teams 

Player of the Year – Bobby Seymour, 1B, Wake Forest

Pitcher of the Year – Reid Detmers, LHP, Louisville

Defensive Player of the Year – Will Wilson, SS, NC State

Freshman of the Year – Aaron Sabato, DH/UT North Carolina

Coach of the Year – Danny Hall, Georgia Tech

First Team

  • C – Kyle McCann, Georgia Tech 
  • C – Patrick Bailey, NC State
  • 1B – Tristin English, Georgia Tech
  • 1B – Bobby Seymour, Wake Forest
  • 2B – Nic Kent, Virginia
  • 3B – Drew Mendoza, Florida State
  • SS – Will Wilson, NC State
  • OF – Grayson Byrd, Clemson
  • OF – Kennie Taylor, Duke
  • OF – Michael Busch, North Carolina
  • OF – Chris Lanzilli, Wake Forest
  • DH/UT – Aaron Sabato, North Carolina
  • SP – Reid Detmers, Louisville
  • SP – Connor Thomas, Georgia Tech
  • SP – Dan Metzdorf, Boston College
  • RP – J.C. Flowers, Florida State

 

Second Team

  • C – Michael Amditis, Miami
  • 1B – Logan Wyatt, Louisville
  • 2B – Jack Owens, Virginia Tech
  • 2B – Cody Morissette, Boston College
  • 3B – Alex Binelas, Louisville
  • SS – Logan Davidson, Clemson
  • OF – Sal Frelick, Boston College
  • OF – Tyler McDonough, NC State
  • OF – Baron Radcliff, Georgia Tech
  • OF – Nico Popa, Pitt
  • DH/UT – Adrian Del Castillo, Miami
  • SP – Drew Parrish, Florida State
  • SP – Davis Sharpe, Clemson
  • SP – Derek West, Pitt
  • SP – Brian Van Belle, Miami
  • RP – Michael McAvene, Louisville

 

Third Team

  • C - Kyle Wilkie, Clemson
  • 1B – Evan Edwards, NC State
  • 2B – Justin Lavey, Louisville
  • 3B – Jake Alu, Boston College
  • 3B – Raymond Gil, Miami SS – Tanner Morris, Virginia
  • SS – Tyler Fitzgerald, Louisville
  • OF – J.C. Flowers, Florida State
  • OF – Connor Perry, Pitt
  • OF – Reese Albert, Florida State
  • DH/UT – Michael Guldberg, Georgia Tech
  • SP – CJ Van Eyk, Florida State
  • SP – Tyler Baum, North Carolina
  • SP – Xzavion Curry, Georgia Tech
  • SP – Mat Clark, Clemson
  • RP – Carson Spiers, Clemson

 

All-Freshman Team

  • OF – Sal Frelick, Boston College
  • 2B – Cody Morissette, Boston College
  • SP – Mason Pelio, Boston College
  • SP/DH – Davis Sharpe, Clemson
  • SS – Ethan Murray, Duke
  • DH/UT – Robby Martin, Florida State
  • 3B – Alex Binelas, Louisville
  • DH/UT – Adrian Del Castillo, Miami
  • DH/UT – Aaron Sabato, North Carolina
  • SS – Danny Serretti, North Carolina
  • OF – Tyler McDonough, NC State
  • 2B – Nic Kent, Virginia

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